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WHO WAS MATILDA JOSLYN GAGE?
Matilda Joslyn Gage, (1826-1898)
Matilda Joslyn Gage, (1826-1898) along with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
formed the leadership triumvirate of the National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA). The
three women edited the first three volumes of the History of Woman Suffrage and Gage
published the NWSA paper for four years, documenting women’s great accomplishments despite
the discrimination and oppression they faced. A committed abolitionist who opened her home as
a stop on the Underground Railroad, she challenged the laws of her nation, risking arrest and
imprisonment by helping freedom takers escape to freedom.
Gage wrote about the superior position of Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) women and supported
treaty rights and Native sovereignty. Influenced by the Haudenosaunee egalitarian nations, she
in turn influenced the utopian feminist vision of her son-in-law, L. Frank Baum, in his fourteen
Oz books. A supporter of a woman’s right to her body, Gage exposed sex trafficking and sexual
abuse by the priesthood in1893. Written out of history for her scathing denunciation of
evangelical Christianity’s key role in the oppression of women, Gage is, according to Gloria
Steinem, “the woman who was ahead of the women who were ahead of their time.”
LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation
We acknowledge that we are on the land of the
sovereign Onondaga Nation.
This land holds the cultural DNA and the Spirit of the First People
of this place: “The Haudenosaunee or People of the Longhouse.”
They are still here and they continue to carry on their ancient
responsibility for their land.
We stand in solidarity with the Onondaga Nation and support their
continuing struggle for the recognition of this land as theirs. We
are committed to the work to dismantle the Doctrine of Discovery,
the Papal Bulls which gave religious sanction to the taking of the
land by the European settler people.
This commitment is in keeping with the mission of the Gage
Foundation to follow Gage’s instruction: “Upon you has fallen the
glorious task of bringing liberty to the earth
and all the inhabitants thereof."
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